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Just get a MacBook Pro.
I don’t get the stubbornness that makes you choose an inferior tool. It’s a piece of equipment you need to do your job, just get the best equipment you can. Why would you sabotage yourself by using shitty tools?
If you’re a professional developer you really only need one main piece of equipment to do your job and it’s not even a lot of money to begin with. Compare this to many other trades. For example: a nephew of mine installs A/V equipment, basically a glorified electrician. He drives a €25k van with about €15k worth of tools and supplies in the back. I bet his hourly rate is less than yours.
Drop €4-5k on a nice loaded MacBook Pro. That’s, what ? One week of billable hours?
He literally said, the price for the storage. That's why.
Which is a bullshit reason. Even if he needed to max it out, that’s a couple of thousand extra at the most. It’s a business expense and a small one at that. The time wasted looking for an alternative is probably costing him more than he’s saving.
You know his revenue? That seems to be the only way you can know whether he's losing money by doing research
"A couple of thousand extra" when he stated his budget was $1,000. Disengage.